Gifre

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - gifre

According to the Old English Dictionary:

gifre
adj. Useful, salutary :-- Niðum to nytte hæleþum gifre of advantage to men, useful to warriors, Exon. 107 b; Th. 409, 12; Rä. 27, 28: 113 a; Th. 433, 6; Rä. 50, 3. Icel. gæfr. gifre

Related words: ungifre, and cf.

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